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I don’t like signing my name on art so instead I give my characters the same forehead birthmark I have

Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients. The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show. In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views. “On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown. “Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.” Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: nymag.visitlink.me/w6Bu9N

@iamrenike Omg why didn’t I see you at the met gala??😍😍

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the dress was made entirely using traditional fine art materials, anna deller yee worked with approx 30 colours, expanded through custom mixing, across roughly 40 hours of painting time, followed by approximately four days of drying with ventilation

referencing your own work is such a serve

ready but at what cost 🫩🫩🫩🫩🫩

Always felt the same way but tbh it’s a highly personal decision

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Man U never know what u got till it’s gone

I’ve stumbled upon Manolo Blahnik’s shoe sketches, recently. I am blown away, these are BEAUTIFUL.

not really a fan of this era that requires everyone to have “social media presence” to push their product. what if some people just wanna…be?

I really like this little corner of my home 🥰

some of my paintings are currently exhibited in London!! beautiful. 🫰

New painting. Mother comes to London.

Google Meet show how late people will be based on meeting history

Just finished!! I loved it soooo much

real

Happy birthday gorgeous gorgeous girl!

I hope Zohran Mamdani‘s wife keeps illustrating and animating. I hope she doesn’t deprioritize it to be First lady. I hope she maintains her passion and this gives her leverage to thrive even more in it.